To play in our automatic tournaments, just enter the tournament room, then click "Join Tournament!"
1. What is a tournament?
Tournaments are a way to compare your skills with
other players in competition for prizes, like VIP status or game
chips. In tournament rooms we’ve used a different form of
ranking for players, called tournament rank, which is independent
from normal game room rank. The level of this rank is dependent on
player skills and number of tournaments played.
2. How our tournaments are played?
When a new tournament is launched, registered and
connected players are automatically put into their seats and a game
begins. If a player is not present on the site at the moment of
tournament start, all of their matches are abandoned and it will be
counted as a walkover. If a player connects in the first round (in a
Swiss tournament system) he may continue game in second round, but
with the loss of the first game. If both players fail to show up,
game is marked as draw.
3. Types of tournaments
We organize different types of tournaments:
Sit & Go – The tournament begins when the required
number of players are register to play. Player must be present on
the site in the moment of the tournament start. Otherwise
their game is lost. Everyone can play in this type of tournament;
the only limit is the number of players allowed. After finishing
one tournament, players can immediately register to another Sit
& Go tournament.
Events – These kinds of tournaments
are announced some time in advance. Registration is open for
all players until the start of the tournament. Prizes are usually
awarded for first places.
4. Tournament systems
Tournaments can be organized using three different tournaments systems:
Swiss – The Swiss tournaments system has a predefined number of rounds, depending on number of
players. Points are granted using rule:
1 point – win,
0.5 point – draw,
0 points – loss.
Pairs of players are matched based on previous
results. If this is possible, pairs are matched from groups of
players with similar scores. If the number of players is odd, the
player with smallest score gets a buy (free game). Every player can
have a buy once per tournament. The winner is always the player with
highest score from all games. If two players have the same score, the
order of games is checked and winner is selected using this way. If
this solution is not possible, the average rank of the opponents is taken into account.
Knock-out – Players play against
each other round after round. The winner of each game qualifies to
the next game, the loser exits from the tournament. If the number of
players is not even, some of players can get a buy (free game) and
can progress to the next round without playing.
Round-robin – In this system every
player plays against each other player in turn.
